as in stronghold
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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Recent Examples of fortress
The Gothic fortress on West 23rd Street was once home to many of the twentieth century’s beautiful and damned—Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, and Sid Vicious among them.
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.
—Gulnaz Khan, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
There, guests can check out fortress ruins and visit the Basilica of Esztergom.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
One of the most prominent rumors surrounding the over 575-year-old fortress has long been the existence of secret passageways beneath the grounds originally hinted at by Leonardo da Vinci.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.
—Gulnaz Khan, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
There, guests can check out fortress ruins and visit the Basilica of Esztergom.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
One of the most prominent rumors surrounding the over 575-year-old fortress has long been the existence of secret passageways beneath the grounds originally hinted at by Leonardo da Vinci.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortress
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Poilievre, however, maintains a stronghold in the Prairies and Alberta, where Conservative support remains dominant.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Israel's military is also intensifying an offensive against a Palestinian militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, deploying tanks there for the first time in more than two decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, there are a variety of low-cost measures such as mines and fortifications that would help to make the conquest of Ukraine more difficult, and Ukraine’s own defense industrial base is well positioned to produce many of these domestically with Western support.—
Emma Ashford,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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The fortifications and trench lines here are a part of nearly 600-mile-long defensive system holding Russia back from the heartland of Ukraine.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
2 Jan. 2025
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The storybook castle was built more than 700 years ago by the knights of Chasteignier de la Roche-Posay.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
26 Feb. 2025
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In winter 1524-1525, the peasants were able to capture castles and monasteries without much bloodshed.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Brian Roberts The only mogul left standing fully erect, NBC remains a bastion of anti-Trumpism (Rachel Maddow is back on the air five nights a week!).—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Feb. 2025
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More importantly, the documentary slyly highlights the hypocrisy now embedded in the DNA of a onetime bastion of rebelliousness becoming more and more mainstream over the years.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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Amid the rapid change in the 800 and 400 free events, now the fans await how long Katie Ledecky will hold her fort in the 1500.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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But after some years, the cesspool got bigger, and our fort got smaller, and eventually the cesspool must have looked inviting.—
Willy Staley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortress. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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